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What have I ever done to deserve this???

Picked on Carl

Ok, Tabula Rasa is both an RPG style sci-fi and it is in 3rd person (may have option in-game for 1st person though) It ships out by Oct 17, around the same time NWN2's MoTB comes out, but I ordered it anyway so I can play 2 types of RPGs, the fantasy dungeon & drangon style and a sci-fi one.

If anyone is interested you can pre-order it at Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000...78-2349516

At the moment I'm going to try something I'm downloading right now. It's called Dungeon Runners, is a FREE Online game and looks fairly nice. At least it will give me something else to do while waiting for my other ones to come out
You can check it out here:
http://www.dungeonrunners.com/

Foxxee, maybe there is a game that we could all purchase which wopuld allow us to play together online without a monthly fee. Most games are around $50 each.....some more elaborate ones are more.....but it would be much cheaper as a one-time expense.....

You are right about "Tabula Rasa".....it does have a first and third person option.....

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Carl wrote: StevieJ has treated me with nothing but kindness, respect, and consideration

Is there one with elaborate customization of characters, enticing team strategies, audio to talk to each other, etc.... I think "World of Warcraft" is like that.....but are there any others???

Craig, did you check this out??? If you haven't, watch the whole thing past the promo to the "Armored Core: Last Raven" mech battle (maximize screen when it starts.....or you can start it, cancel it, and start it a second time to skip the Animie promo and begin with the mech battle). I can't wait until gameplay is like this sometime in the future.....might not be far off......

http://www.gamespot.com/video/928203/...ay-movie-1

Dungeon Runners looks nice, but too much small stuff that I can't see well enough. I am legally blind and my glasses can only do so much.

Looked like fun though.

The characters and the things that are jumping at them are too small.

I have a game pad similar to the PS one that I use for the computer versions of the games.

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Kraellin wrote: finally got spawning to work in NWN 2!! Big grin

Glad you found a way around your problem, Craig! Did those web sites help you?

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ahimsa wrote: The characters and the things that are jumping at them are too small.

The character that you would play you say are too small?
There is a zoom camera and you can adjust the eye-level as well, close to her back and ground level or birds-eye view and far off. The things jumping at the character, I'm not sure what you mean by that... the enemies are a good size too, not at all difficult for me to see from the viewpoint I have my game set up.

Here's a pic for you if this helps give you an idea of the size of things as I play them...not in window mode, but full screen:

The first one I can see, but would prefer larger, the second would be too difficult for me to play with.

I think I will pass on playing; I will probably be too busy with a baby anyway.

Something weird I'm not getting any posting email notifications from FF, if anyones has directed any comments my way, I may not find them so excusy

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StevieJ wrote: Hey Jan, Manon, and Craig

Maybe it won't be a problem LMAO

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Manon, put that baby down and get your ass back here

heh heh...heh heh...he said ass...heh heh

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StevieJ wrote: Hey Jan, Manon, Craig, and Carl Smile I think that I actually like "Guild Wars"

Like I've been trying to tell you, Steve, Tabula Rasa is made and plays by the same folks who made Guild Wars... so you will get the same setup in this game, which has both rpg elements and sci-fi story line in it. It's coming out Oct. 17 so I'll be playing that when it does, or if NWN2 comes out first... or both

Something else I just found out about Tabula Rasa is that you get to clone your character at any time in the game. Same last name but have to give him/her a new first name, can change your sex (not my style thank you) and then retain all the same traits and skills and xps but now you can choose an entirely different profession if you want. The game branches off in the career abilities quite a bit so there's a lot to choose from

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ahimsa wrote: The first one I can see, but would prefer larger, the second would be too difficult for me to play with. I think I will pass on playing

Ok, Manon... but that first image I had to shrink 3 times to get FF to allow it to show up here

If anyone does, in the mean time, drop into Dungeon Runner I'm Foxxee logged in and Astasia the character. You should be able to contact me with the in-game Whisper sytem

I just checked out "World of Warcraft".....which would be awesome for us.....going in and working together as our own guild.....audio chat with each other.....meet all kinds of other good people (and kill the bad ones together) (over 6 million people are in there). If you could afford to try that out for a couple months, I would say let's go for it.....

If you have the time, check this whole video out. It's kinda long, but you will be amazed by it......I was......

http://www.gamespot.com/video/534914/...eo-feature

I don't think anyone else wants to pay-to-play either....but I thought the concept was pretty amazing.....very interesting and fun.....excellent character development.....sense of community.....working together as a team and with others.....audio communications.....social aspects with ourselves and others playing the game.....etc. On the downside, it looks pretty damn addictive!!!

What would be the next best thing to something like WoW that wouldn't have a monthly fee???

I like the 'communications' aspects of Jan's 'Tabula Rasa'.....but I'm not thrilled with the gameplay and lack of character customization, options, and development. The gameplay seems too confined and busy.....and looks like coops would be mass confusion. If this is the next best thing to WoW without a monthy fee, then so be it....I'm willing to give it a try.....

Oh, I don't know how everyone feels about this, but how about a strategy game without characters???

http://www.filterforge.com/forum/read...1&TID=3975

I would be interested in seeing them....

What does "NWN" stand for??? .......so I can go check it out.....

Sounds really neat that you can use FF to create customized environments. I would do one in glass, but no one would ever see it LOL.....

Maybe this game is the one we should all give a wirl??? How does Jan, Manon, and Carl feel about getting into it???

PS..... Nice plug on your filter, Manon.....worked.....I went and checked it out

and another:

Oh, this is good!!! I was mistaken.....I thought it was a "Doom-ish" type of game. Okay, I'm in.....

Jan, Manon, and Carl.....how do you guys feel about this one???

yeah, it's pretty good.

that character is my buffed up monk/sorcerer. he's pretty much maxxed out through cheats i use in the editor

So, we would all be in there at the same time, all with weapons, and all could accidentally kill each other?

I tried to play Diablo with Daniel and well, it kind of sucked. You have to go where the other person drags you and try not to kill each other. With my vision I am sure that poor Steve will end up with many arrows in his back from my "accidental" misses.

Steve, the NWN pincushion

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Kraellin wrote: that character is my buffed up monk/sorcerer. he's pretty much maxxed out through cheats i use in the editor

Well, that's not going to be much fun if you have God-like powers.....while the rest of us have to use sticks and stones LMAO.....

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ahimsa wrote: Steve, the NWN pincushion

I better start learning the editor.....I'm going to need some serious weapons to keep you guys from trying to kill me every time the game starts LMAO.....

Does it have real-time audio so we can all talk to each other as we go???

steve, one of the nice things about NWN 2 is that you can 'export character'. i have several of the same character saved at different levels and i can just import the character i want to use at the start of the module. same guy, but one i exported at different levels. the one in the screenshots is just my top guy because i was testing some rather nasty critters.

Do you have alot of character building/customization options??? I think it would be cool to be able to create your own character however you want.....

What about audio communications???

exloring is both exterior, like the screenshots i showed, and interior, meaning inside houses, churches, etc. puzzles and quests are set up through triggers, conversation and scripting. i havent done hardly any of that yet in the editor. if you play the campaign game you'll get a feel for what's possible. that is quest driven and pretty linear. the scripting and conversations are the big keys to puzzles and quests. they have both a conversation editor and a scripting editor along with the terrain editing and the creature editing. it's pretty extensive. i could make five trolls, for example, and have them all start from the same template but make and save unique ones. so, i could have a troll wielding a hammer, another with armor on, one that is twice as big as the others and so on and so forth. you can also do this with objects and add scripts to objects. so, your rogue tries to open a locked chest and fails and an alarm goes off.

and where i havent really read the basics on this yet, i believe you can craft your own weapons, armor, clothing and so on. and, i'm fairly sure, but dont hold me to it, that you can import your own models for use. we've got several folks here doing 3d stuff, so that could get pretty slick.

as for character customization, with the bodies you have a fairly decent range of type, everything from a halfling to one beast type (more with mods if you can find them). character look gives hair types, hair color, facial hair, head types, body girth, height (to a certain extent), and is somewhat limited from what i can see other than those things. so, if you wanted a buff looking ogre with tatoos and freckles and a hairy back, no, that's not going to happen. but if you wanted a taller than normal half-elf, with a mohawk haircut, golden eyes, and red hair and also was very thin, yes, you can do that.

now, in the editor, there's actually more options for sculpting the looks of critters and npc's. i saw one tutorial on changing the facial looks pretty radically. but, as far as i can tell, you cant go that extensive on your own characters.

there's tons of items in the game, and i'm fairly sure you can craft (and maybe texture) your own clothing and armors and that sort.

and i dont know a thing about audio communications yet. i'm going to guess is type-to-talk, though. i havent seen anything about direct voice over ip. so, that is a minus if i've got that right.

some of the other drawbacks are that you arent going to roam around in a single gigantic area. the modules are fairly small, at least by some standards. what you do is 'transition' from one area to another within a given module. so, going into a house is usually a transition through a door set up to do this. once you go through, you are now inside with no view of the outside and you transition back out that or another door. still, with some clever terrain building, you can get a fairly decently sized single area to roam around in. and, an almost unlimited number of areas you can set up and transition to.

another drawback is that they dont do walking up things like stairs very well. i set up a ramparts thing next to a high wall and had to raise the ground to allow my characters to get up there. and, when they did make it up, i had set that rampart to 'walkable'. well, it turns out they walked right through it and just followed the slope of the ground underneath. but, that could have just been me not knowing how to set 'walkable' up right.

the strength of NWN 2 is the editing. that's the key to it all being a good module or a not so good one. and i'm guessing the coming expansion pack is going to expand on that. some of the ingame stuff is a bit clumsy at times. you come to a gate and open it. you can also close it. but whenever the cursor is near the gate, the cursor is in gate open/close mode, so you cant click on something just past the gate. little things like that make the game play a little clumsy here and there.

all in all, because i like world building, i generally like the game. but i mostly like the behind the scenes stuff. i've always been a world builder and mostly buy games with editors. so, take what all i'm saying here with that grain of salt